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One of my favorite parts about the old perkins diesel engine in our boat is that you need to press a button to stop it from running once started. You turn off
by iancmceachern 2y ago
One of my favorite parts about the old perkins diesel engine in our boat is that you need to press a button to stop it from running once started. You turn off the ignition and it just runs on physics until you do something to interrupt the fuel or air supply.
- doubled112 2y agoDiesels diesel (the verb). It keeps them exciting. I’ve been in a friend’s car while it ran away on motor oil passed by a failed turbo. Turning it off didn’t stop the engine.
- robocat 2y agoThe scariest story I've heard was a parked diesel pickup truck going runaway acceleration because of the hydrocarbon vapours in the air due to an industrial accident. They abandoned the pickup and it subsequently got blamed "A diesel pickup truck that was idling nearby ignited the vapor, initiating a series of explosions and fires that swept through the unit and the surrounding area". I read about it in one of the disaster reports about the Texas City BP refinery explosion. Ugly mistakes were made.
- Lammy 2y ago> I read about it in one of the disaster reports about the Texas City BP refinery explosion. Relevant part of USCSB accident reconstruction animation: https://youtu.be/goSEyGNfiPM?t=550 https://youtu.be/goSEyGNfiPM?t=550 (but worth watching the whole thing!)
- namibj 2y agoCan't quite call it parked if it's idling...